Prof. Knoll attended the University of Heidelberg Medical School where he received his medical approval and M. D. degree in 1998. He completed his Urology and General Surgery residency at Mannheim University Hospital, under the direction of Prof. Peter Alken. He became staff member and vice-chair at the Department of Urology, Mannheim University Hospital in 2004 and 2007, resepectively. He received his Ph. D. and M. Sc. degrees for scientific work on urinary stone disease and health economics in 2004, resepectively. Prof. Knoll is currently Professor and Chair of Urology at the Department of Urology, Klinikum Sindelfingen, University of Tübingen. His research interests focus on minimal-invasive treatments for urinary stone disease and benign prostatic hyperplasia. In his clinical practice, he mainly performs endoscopic and laparoscopic procedures for benign and malignant urological diseases. He has published and spoken extensively in his areas of interest. Prof. Knoll serves as vice-chair of the Guidelines Groups Urolithiasis of the European Association of Urology and chairman of the German Working Group. He is member of the Editorial Board of several peer-reviewed journals and does intensive review work for many Urological journals. In 2005, he received the German Urological Society s Wolfgang-Hepp-Award for his extensive scientific work on Urolithiasis. He serves on the Urology Residency Review Committee of the Southwestern German Medical Association. 2
CARREER Clinical carreer - 08/2008 Head of Urology Department, Klinikum Sindelfingen-Böblingen - 05/2007 Vice Clinical Director, Department of Urology, Mannheim University Hospital - 12/2007 Associate Professor, University of Heidelberg - 01/2005 Assistant Professor, University of Heidelberg - 04/2004 Head of Minimally-Invasive Urology/Urolithiasis Department of Urology, Mannheim University Hospital - 1998 2004 Urology training in Mannheim and Istanbul 1999-2004 Urology (Prof. Dr. Alken) 06-08/2004 Urology, Capa University Hospital Istanbul (Prof. Dr. T. Esen) 2002 General Surgery (Prof. Dr. Post) 1998-1999 Nephrology (Prof. Dr. van der Woude) Academic carreer Habilitation (PhD) - 12/07 Associate Professorship, Medical Faculty Mannheim University of Heidelberg - 06/05 PhD, Medical Faculty Mannheim University of Heidelberg - 09/05 PhD thesis awarded by German Urological Society Master program - 2002-2005 Master program Health care management Business economics course, Mannheim University - 2005 Master of Science degree Thesis: Economic aspects of outpatient surgery Scholarships - 1998-1999 Postdoc-Grant German Research Foundation (DFG) - 2004 Fellowship European Urological Association Promotion (MD) - 1998 Einfluss des selektiven Endothelin-Rezeptor-A Antagonisten LU135252 auf das ischämische akute Nierenversagen der Ratte, V. Department of Medicine, Mannheim University Hospital, University of Heidelberg Graded with magna cum laude 3
Memberships Scientific Societies - German Society of Urology (DGU) - European Association of Urology (EAU) - American Urological Association (AUA) - Endourological Society - American Brachytherapy Society - Southwestern German Society of Urology - European Intrarenal Surgery Society (EIRSS) - German Society for Ultrasound in Medicine (DEGUM) - Erich-Frank-Society for German-Turkish Relationships Memberships Expert committees - German Society for Shockwave Lithotripsy (Board member) - German Working Group Urolithiasis (chairman) - Urolithiasis Working Group, EAU Healthcare Office - AUA/EAU-Urolithiasis Guidelines Group on Ureteric Stones - European Urolithiasis Society (EULIS, board member) - European Society of Uro-Technology (ESUT, board member) Publications - 69 original papers (Medline-listed) - 27 review papers - 10 other publications - 13 book chapters - 262 published abstracts - 5 surgical videos Reviewer - International Journals (European Urology, Urological Research (Editorial board member), Journal of Urology, Pediatric Nephrology, American Journal of Kidney Diseases, Journal of Endourology, World Journal of Urology, Urologia Internationalis, Apoptosis) - International Meetings (German Society of Urology, European Association of Urology, European Urolithiasis Society) - Internationale Societies (Israel Science Foundation) Live-Surgeon at scientific meetings - Societé International d Urologie, Stockholm, Sweden (2002) - European Association of Urology (seit 2003) - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Urologie (seit 2002) - Norddeutsche Gesellschaft für Urologie, Hamburg, Germany (2003) - Südwestdeutsche Gesellschaft für Urologie, Stuttgart, Germany (seit 2003) 4
- Jordanian Society of Urological Surgeons, Amman, Jordanien (2003) - Tübingen University Hospital (2005, 2006, 2008) - New Perspectives in Endourology, Mannheim, Germany (2007) - Guest professorship Endourology, University Hospitals Harbin and Jinan, China (2007) - Endourology Course, Hamburg, Germany (2007) - Endourology Workshop, Pforzheim, Germany (2008) - Endourology Workshop, Tübingen, Germany (2008) - EndoVision Hall i. Tirol, Austria (2009) - Sympsium d Endourologie, Paris, France (2010) - Urolithiasis Meeting Kunming, China (2010) - OP Symposium University Hospital Mannheim, Germany (2010) - Urolithiasis Workshop, Dresden, Germany (2010) - Annual Meeting, European Association for Urology, Vienna, Austria (2011) - EULIS Comprehensive Urolithiasis Workshop, Sofia, Bulgaria (2011) Prizes & Awards - German Research Foundation (1998-1999) - European Association of Urology (2000, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2011) - Southwestern German Society of Urology (2002) - American Urological Association (2004) - European Urolithiasis Society (2005) - German Society of Urology (2005) 5
Topics of special interest & expertise - Endourology including ureterorenoscopy, percutaneous nephrolithotomy, extracorporal shockwave lithotripsy, prostate resection/vaporisation - Urinary Stone disease (evaluation, treatment, prevention) - Laparoscopic surgery - Uro-oncology including medical tumor therapy - Reconstructive Urology 6